From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pratyush Anand Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 dracut 0/3] Install kernel module for active watchdog Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:02:42 +0530 Message-ID: <20160308103242.GG20953@dhcppc3.redhat.com> References: <20160308093400.GB8155@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160308093400.GB8155-0VdLhd/A9Pl+NNSt+8eSiB/sF2h8X+2i0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dave Young Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Don Zickus , Harald Hoyer Hi Dave, On 08/03/2016:05:34:00 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On 03/08/16 at 02:14pm, Pratyush Anand wrote: > > -- Removed creation of tmp/active-watchdogs. modinfo will be helpful for > > kexec-tools. > > Kdump still need save a previous added wdt somewhere so that it can rebuild > initrd if necessary. I'm not sure where can we store the state, do you have > some thoughts about it? modinfo is able to help out here. See following kexec implementation, which I still need to cleanup (as per coding style feedback received for dracut patches), But I have tested it and it works. https://github.com/pratyushanand/kexec-tools/blob/watchdog_fmaster/kdumpctl#L341 ~Pratyush